Definitions for interesting
ˈɪn tər ə stɪŋ, -trə stɪŋ, -təˌrɛs tɪŋin·ter·est·ing

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. interestingadjective

   arousing or holding the attention

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. interestingadjective

   Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Interesting

   of Interest

2. Interestingadjective

   engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news

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1. Interesting

   "Interesting" was the fifth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 7 December 1982.

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. interesting

   In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of ‘annoying’, or ‘difficult’, or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. Oppose trivial, uninteresting.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1182

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #592

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Adjectives Frequency: #126

How to pronounce interesting?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say interesting in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of interesting in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of interesting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of interesting in a Sentence

1. Grand Slam:

   There is a level of pressure that is interesting because you are responsible for somebody else’s hopes and dreams, i take that very seriously. That pressure comes and goes and in between you are more relaxed than as a player and you get to take in your environment.

2. Kelleth Cuthbert:

   Nothing quite so interesting has ever happened, nothing has garnered so much attention as this before.

3. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

4. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   There is an interesting difference between a Cat and an Oxford Comma. You see, a Cat has claws at the ends of its paws, and an Oxford Comma is a pause at the end of a clause. It's all a game of claws and paws for a Cat, while an Oxford Comma is governed by clause and pause.

5. Alan Abramowitz:

   It’s going to be interesting to see what [candidates] do after the primaries are over.

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